St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-30

H3 B/// of the papers are re-
AT HR N productions in eX-
A A%LI act words of senti-
R w. mentS expressed.
B csA This is only true to
H~ ~ certain extent,
with an accent on
the X. While some of the
pony interviews are fair sam
pies of what might be called verbal
photography, there are instances when
the interviewer exercises a license that
is greater than that generally accorded
poets. The reporter, with a kindness
that would do credit to a prOfessed
Christian, not only straightens out
many ungrammatical sentences, but in
many instances suppresses that which
he knows could not be said with
out disaster to the man who
allows excitement or anger to
Furthermore, the humble sc ribe often
protects THAT is the wor6 his victims
and leaves unsaid the things that ought
to have been said. For instance, he
drops into resort, and joins group of
prominent politicians. The flow of the
red liquor and cOngenial cOmpanionship
has lOosened the tongue. Mr.. B., man
well known about the city as the pos
SCISSOR of considerable wealth and pOlit-
ical sagacity, remarks concerning GER
tain man who is mentioned for a certain
office:
why, the old horse theft knew him back
in Connecticut before he came out here.
He'd steal the coppers off of dead mems
eyes. He was run out of town on account of
his Internal meanness. Even his wife and
daughters despise him, and he can't get
dog to walk with him on the street. I'd like
to see him show his head, etc., etc., etc.
Nevertheless, Mr.. B. would be ter
ribiy aggravated if the reporter should
scribble down his words and reproduce
them in cold print. Not unlikely he
would deny that he ever said any such
a thing, and would damn the news
papers for employing such careless, If
responsible reporters. In the last pO-
litical campaign, to delye into an ancient
now an office-holder, allowed a
reporter for Republican paper to jot
down his remarks, but the next day
utterly repudiated them, and in addi-
tion stigmatized the reporter as one I'M
acquainted with the truth. To give an
other instance, a very prominent man,
who is a dictator in the Republican
party, was introduced to a newspaper
editor. He was in the midst of
4 vigorous lnvectiye against the Frank
bin avenue bridge, and, not knowing
who his visitor was, continued with his
remarks, which, when published in a
a storm about his ears. OF course he
vigorously denied his own statement,
and even asserted that he had never
seen representative of the paper.
-! INTERVENING ACTRESSES.
The reporter who is generally assigned
to do the interviewing looks over the
book when he gets to the office and sees
in the writing of his city editor:
Get talk out of Miss de Bum, the actress,
at the West hotel, and turn in at 6 p. m.
He goes up to the hotel and asks for,
not the actress, but her manager. That
individual, with an eye to business,
says, ''Of course; only too glad. Go to
the parlor, and I'll have her down in
minute" What violence he is guilty of
to compel his star to submit to the ordeal
heaven only knows, but in a half hour
she appears, looking as though he had
assisted her to dress. She looks tired and
disguised with life. There are dark
rings under her eyes and chalk-like
appearance about her face which indi-
Gates that she used her powder chamOis
very hurriedly. She knows what an in
terview means and mechanically repeats
some stale statistics about her life,
works off a tired smile or two, bows and
retires. In the next days paper the in
terview reads somewhat as follows:
Clad in light blue wrapper which revealed
the graceful outlines of her figure, with q
smile that looked almost like merriment in
her bright, sparkling eyes, Miss DeBum en-
tered the parlOr and greeted the reporter in
frank, engaging manner
And then is added half column of
nauseating slush about her tchic, - "dia-
mOnds, " ''captivating graceS," etc.
HAUHTY RAILROAD CLERKS.
The reporter enters a railroad office.
A young man whose hair. is plastered
upon his brow with care, that is the
hair, and not the brow, looks up as
though he regarded the intrusion as an
impertinence::
II don't think you can see MI W. today
We are very busy
'Oh, we are. Ell? Who are we?"
''Well, you can't see him.
''Why. can't cat look at king?''
Perhaps cat can, but you can't"
you give me pain.''
$50 and take a pill then"
'You elongated, brockled faced dude.''
''You big-eared, meat headed chump;
yon'-.
But here the railroad magnate strolls
out of his private Office and, extending
two fingers to the reporter, says 'HellO,
my boy, what are you after nOw?" The
reporter puts his question and gets his
answer, without deigning to look at the
vanquished dude, who looks as though
hemeant to suicide by swallowing his
toothbrush.
TACKLING THE MAYOR.
Mayor Ames is at his desk in the city
hall. There is crowd in the ante-rOOm,
composed chiefly of poor people, who,
knowing his charitable disposition, came
for free medical advice, for the mayor is
doctor. A half dozen small-fry politi-
clans fill up the remainder of the space.
in the inner Office the mayor is looking
over his mail and occasionally talking
to small group of friends. He is busy
with letters, and says:
Haven't time just now. Come later"
"But what do you think of the Tribnne's
insult to Mrs. Clevelandf'
s''Thinkl don't think anything about it.
know it's an outrage upon decency; it's
SANDER upon the hospitality of the city; it's
10 miserable, low-lived, contemplate, cow
ardly slur perpetrated by q yapid, brainless
dude, man who is guyed by his own re-
porters. In my opinion the man who would
write such q thing is -
"Oh, you do consent to talk?"
3 Eyes damme, I'll not only talk but I'll
write it myself, and you putt in just as I
write it,"
And the mayor writes down his COM
ment in his own neat chirOgraphy.
kToUGH CUSTOMER.
G. III. Prior, when he was superin-
sstendent oflthe Milwaukee road, was a
{ rock of Gibraltar upon which many a
reportorial wreck was cast. He seemed